d-noob: >That would break C compatibility and sounds ridiculous.<
It breaks C compatibility, but it doesn't assign a new meaning to a C syntax, it just disallows a syntax used in C, and this is allowed by D philosophy. Many of the things I say sound ridiculous :-) You may say it's not a handy change and you may refuse it, but I think it's not a ridiculous idea because those changes lead to code that's equal to how some expert coders suggest to program to avoid bugs, this is one of them, but I have seen two more: http://users.bestweb.net/~ctips/tip037.html So it's a language enforcement of a coding tip/standard. Bye, bearophile
